Ranked Choice Voting, or RCV, the process by which voters rank candidates by preference, has been in and out of the news for the last several years, as advocates and critics on both sides of the political aisle debate the merits and pitfalls of a system that many on the left – and increasingly some on the right – seem to think is the way elections should be handled. Most recently, New York City candidate for mayor Zohran Mamdani espoused RCV’s benefits prior to his defeat of former Governor Andrew Cuomo in the city’s Democratic mayoral primary. Some believe his win was helped by the RCV ranking system which had far left progressives calling for Mamdani supporters not to rank Cuomo before the election, while others think Cuomo could have done better in the primary had he just embraced the RCV system and used it to his advantage. To discuss the controversial voting system and what happened in New York is Jason Snead, executive director of the Honest Elections Project.
Listen to “Ep. 371: Gaming the Vote: The Truth About Ranked Choice Voting” on Spreaker.
- Wall Street Journal: New York Progressives Pin Hopes on ‘Don’t Rank Cuomo’
- Capital Research Center: The Left-Wing Megadonors Pushing for Ranked Choice Voting
- Capital Research Center: How RCV Works
- Honest Elections Project: About Us
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Author: Michael Watson
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